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David H. Crocker is a Senior Advisor of the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group, active in the IETF, and a self-employed consultant, working under the company name Brandenburg InternetWorking. He designs network-based applications businesses and system architectures.^[1] He has forty-five years of work experience in the Internet industry, including early work on the ARPANET, including designing and standardizing Internet mail services.

He has held a variety of positions in the IETF, as one of its first area directors, chairing working groups, and serving on the administrative oversight committee (IAOC/Trust).^[2] He originated training for IETF working group chairs and co-authored an RFC describing working group processes. He is also a member of Association of Computing Machinery, Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers, and ISOC.^[3]

Dave is well-known for his work on RFC 822, which defines the format of an Internet mail message and was the first 'customer' specification using domain names. He is the brother of Steve Crocker, who is also well known in the Internet Industry for his pioneering work, such as creating the RFC series and chairing the ICANN board.

Much of Crocker's recent work revolves around email anti-abuse, working towards a trust overlay on the Internet.^[4]

Career History[edit | edit source]

Dave started his networking career In the 1970's, when he worked for four years at UCLA with ARPANET.^[5]

From 1989 to 1991, he worked as the Manager of Network Systems Laboratory, Digital Equipment Corp. Prior to this he was the Vice President of Engineering at The Wollongong Group, Inc., building Internet protocol stacks for various vendor platforms. He has managed the development of the TCP/IP stack at Ungermann-Bass, Inc. and was co-architect and Director of System Development at MCI Digital Information Services Corp, where he worked with Vint Cerf to build a national email service that included the ability to printer letters around the country and have them delivered by courier, as well as interconnecting with the global Telex service. Prior to this, he worked as the Co-Principal Investigator, for the CSNet project and an ARPA/Internet email gateway project, housed at the University of Delaware.^[6]^[7]

Dave was also an Advisor at Goodmail Systems, the Co-Founder of Portola Software, an Engineer at Silicon Graphics, and started an Internet technology transfer laboratory while a Director at Digital Equipment Corporation.^[8]

Work with the Internet[edit | edit source]

He was one of the original IETF Area Directors, serving from 1989-1996. He participated in the effort to standardize facsimile and electronic data exchange over the Internet. He chaired the Silicon Valley–Public Access Link ISP, for the under-served, in the early 1990s.^[9] Besides the focus on email, he has also contributed to work on Internet commerce, DNS, emergency services, and TCP/IP enhancements. He has also taught several classes on Internet, TCP/IP and Open Systems Networking.

^[10] Dave was one of Jon Postel's appointees to the IAHC, which was tasked to propose an initial set of new DNS gTLDs; it's proposal introduced the concept of registry/registrar and the concept of a dispute resolution mechanism. (Also see^[11].)

Email[edit | edit source]

Dave's various efforts facilitated the email. While at The Rand Corporation, he developed the ^[12] mail system, providing alternative user interfaces, including [MSG], which was the first integrated email user program. MS was designed for UNIX operating system and led to a wide range of significant Internet activities over the years.^[13] The project was initiated by Steve Walker, who was then the Program Manager at DAPRA. Dave designed the functional specifications and Steve Tepper and Bill Crosby did the programming, reporting to the Rand department head, Bob Anderson, and had Dave Farber as an adviser.

In 1977, Dave, John Vittal, Kenneth Pogran, and Austin Henderson worked on a DARPA initiative to produce a single, coherent ARPANET standard for an email object. The result of their work was RFC 733. In 1982, Dave made some specific changes to adapt RFC 733 for use on the emerging Internet; this resulted in RFC 822.

In 1978, Dave was once again with Dave Farber at the University of Delaware, where he developed the first versions of the Multi-purpose Memo Distribution Facility (MMDF), for relaying and gatewaying mail. This project was initially for the U.S. Army Materiel Command^[14], and then served as the foundation of CSNet.^[15] Dave has developed two national email services and designed two others.^[16]

Meetings[edit | edit source]

Dave actively participates in meetings in the Internet industry. He has chaired and presented at several conferences, including:

N+I Interop
Electronic Messaging Association
APRICOT '06, '05, '04, '99
RIPE, Edinburgh^[17]
Email World
Unix Expo
FTC email authentication conference in 2004.^[18]

Publications[edit | edit source]

He is the author of book chapters, magazine articles, presentations, and specifications on open systems networking, standards, electronic mail, and electronic commerce. A complete list of his presentations and publications can be read here.

Awards and Honors[edit | edit source]

In 2004, he received the IEEE Internet Award.^[19]

Education[edit | edit source]

Doctoral work in Computer Science from the University of Delaware (1978-1982)
M.A. in Communication from Annenberg School, USC (1977)
B.A. in Psychology from UCLA (1975)

External Links[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

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[7] vesting.businessweek.com

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[11] Ruling the Root: Internet Governance and the Taming of Cyberspace

[12] MS

[13] [MS Effects]

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+'''David H. Crocker''' is a Senior Advisor of the  [[MAAWG|Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group]], active in the [[IETF]], and a self-employed consultant, working under the company name Brandenburg InternetWorking. He designs network-based applications businesses and system architectures.<ref>[http://www.dcrocker.net/resume.html dcrocker.net]</ref> He has forty-five years of work experience in the Internet industry, including early work on the [[ARPANET]], including designing and standardizing Internet mail services.
-'''David H. Crocker''' is a Senior Advisor at  [[MAAWG|Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group]] and Participant at [[IETF]]. He is also self employed working under the company name Brandenburg InternetWorking. He designs network-based applications businesses and system architectures.<ref>[http://www.dcrocker.net/resume.html dcrocker.net]</ref> He has forty years of work experience in the Internet Industry.
+He has held a variety of positions in the IETF, as one of its first area directors, chairing working groups, and serving on the administrative oversight committee (IAOC/Trust).<ref>[http://bbiw.net/dave.html bbiw.net]</ref> He originated training for IETF working group chairs and co-authored an RFC describing working group processes. He is also a member of [[Association of Computing Machinery]], [[Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers]], and [[ISOC]].<ref>[http://bbiw.net/resume.pdf bbiw.net]</ref>
-He is currently a member of the IETF's administrative and legal oversight bodies (IAOC/Trust).<ref>[http://bbiw.net/dave.html bbiw.net]</ref> He is also a Member of Association of Computing Machinery, Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers and� [[ISOC]].<ref>[http://bbiw.net/resume.pdf bbiw.net]</ref>
+Dave is well-known for his work on RFC 822, which defines the format of an Internet mail message and was the first 'customer' specification using [[Domain Name|domain name]]<nowiki/>s. He is the brother of [[Steve Crocker]], who is also well known in the Internet Industry for his pioneering work, such as creating the [[RFC]] series and chairing the ICANN board.
-He is the brother of [[Stephen Crocker]].
+Much of Crocker's recent work revolves around email anti-abuse, working towards a trust overlay on the Internet.<ref>[http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5672 ietf.org]</ref>
 == Career History ==
-He has been an Advisor at Goodmail Systems and is the Co-Founder of Portola Software. Mr Crocker has recently served as an Engineer at [[Silicon Graphics]]. He has also held the position of Director at Digital Equipment Corporation.<ref>[http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=9612&authType=name&authToken=TBDi&locale=en_US&pvs=pp&trk=ppro_viewmore linkedin.com]</ref>
+Dave started his networking career In the 1970's, when he worked for four years at UCLA with [[ARPANET]].<ref name=":0">[http://bbiw.net/dave.html bbiw.net]</ref>
-From 1989 to 1991, he worked as the Manager of  Network Systems Laboratory, Digital Equipment Corp. Prior to which, he was the Vice President of Engineering at The Wollongong Group, Inc. He has also held the position of Development Manager at Ungermann-Bass, Inc. and has worked as the Director of System Development at [[MCI Digital Information Services Corp.]] He started his career working as the Co-Principal Investigator, Electrical Engineering at University of Delaware.<ref>[http://www.dcrocker.net/resume.html dcrokcer.net]</ref>
+From 1989 to 1991, he worked as the Manager of  Network Systems Laboratory, Digital Equipment Corp. Prior to this he was the Vice President of Engineering at The Wollongong Group, Inc., building Internet protocol stacks for various vendor platforms. He has managed the development of the [[TCP/IP]] stack at Ungermann-Bass, Inc. and was co-architect and Director of System Development at [[MCI Digital Information Services Corp]], where he worked with [[Vint Cerf]] to build a national email service that included the ability to printer letters around the country and have them delivered by courier, as well as interconnecting with the global Telex service. Prior to this, he worked as the Co-Principal Investigator, for the CSNet project and an ARPA/Internet email gateway project, housed at the University of Delaware.<ref>[http://www.dcrocker.net/resume.html dcrocker.net]</ref><ref>[http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=20948471&ticker=NSR:US&previousCapId=6330458&previousTitle=Proofpoint%2C%20Inc. investing.businessweek.com]</ref>
-In the 1970's he worked with the [[ARPA]] network research community.<ref>[http://bbiw.net/dave.html bbiw.net]</ref>
+Dave was also an Advisor at Goodmail Systems, the Co-Founder of Portola Software, an Engineer at [[Silicon Graphics]], and started an Internet technology transfer laboratory while a Director at Digital Equipment Corporation.<ref>[http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=9612&authType=name&authToken=TBDi&locale=en_US&pvs=pp&trk=ppro_viewmore linkedin.com]</ref>
-== Work with Internet ==
+== Work with the Internet ==
-He has been the Area director for the [[IETF]] from 1989-1993. He participated in the effort to standardize facsimile over Internet and [[EDI|electronic data interchange]] over the Internet. He Chaired the [[Silicon Valley–Public Access Link]], of which he is still a board member.<ref>[http://bbiw.net/resume.pdf bbiw.net]</ref>
+He was one of the original [[IETF]] Area Directors, serving from 1989-1996. He participated in the effort to standardize facsimile and electronic data exchange over the Internet. He chaired the [[Silicon Valley–Public Access Link]] ISP, for the under-served, in the early 1990s.<ref>[http://bbiw.net/resume.pdf bbiw.net]</ref> Besides the focus on email, he has also contributed to work on Internet commerce, [[DNS]], emergency services, and [[TCP/IP]] enhancements. He has also taught several classes on Internet, TCP/IP and Open Systems Networking.
-For almost 40 years, he designed and prepare Internet Standards. He has also contributed to work on Internet commerce, domain name service, emergency services, and TCP/IP enhancements.<ref>[http://bbiw.net/dave.html bbiw.net]</ref>
+<ref>[http://bbiw.net/dave.html bbiw.net]</ref> Dave was one of [[Jon Postel]]'s appointees to the [[IAHC]], which was tasked to propose an initial set of new DNS gTLDs; it's proposal introduced the concept of registry/registrar and the concept of a dispute resolution mechanism. (Also see<ref>[http://bbiw.net/recent.html#ruling Ruling the Root: Internet Governance and the Taming of Cyberspace]</ref>.)
-He was one of [[Jon Postel]]'s appointees to the [[IAHC]].<ref>[http://www.cisco.com/web/about/ac123/ac147/archived_issues/ipj_5-4/book_reviews.html cisco.com]</ref>
 === Email ===
-Mr. Crocker is often reffered as one of the Inventors and Designer of E-mail. He developed [[MS]], based on the design of [[MSG]], which was the first modern Email sender program. MS was designed for UNIX operating system. Its idea was initiated by Steve Walker, who was then the Program Manager at [[DAPRA]]. While [[Dave Farber]] managed the overall work for the program, Mr. Crocker designed the functional specifications and [[Steve Tepper]] and [[Bill Crosby]] did the programming.
+Dave's various efforts facilitated the email. While at The Rand Corporation, he developed the <ref>[https://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R2134.html MS]</ref> mail system, providing alternative user interfaces, including [[https://www.livinginternet.com/e/ei.htm MSG]], which was the first integrated email user program. MS was designed for UNIX operating system and led to a wide range of significant Internet activities over the years.<ref>[[http://bbiw.net/articles/rand-email.pdf MS Effects]]</ref> The project was initiated by [[Steve Walker]], who was then the Program Manager at [[DAPRA]]. Dave designed the functional specifications and [[Steve Tepper]] and [[Bill Crosby]] did the programming, reporting to the [[Rand]] department head, [[Bob Anderson]], and had [[Dave Farber]] as an adviser.
-In 1977, Mr. Crocker, [[John Vittal]], [[Kenneth Pogran]], and [[Austin Henderson]] worked together on a DARPA initiative that was meant to collect various email data formats into a single, coherent specification. The result of there work was [http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc733.txt RFC 733]. In 1982, Dave revised RFC 733 and prepared [http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc822.txt RFC 822], which was the first standard to describe the syntax of [[domain name]].
+In 1977, Dave, [[John Vittal]], [[Kenneth Pogran]], and [[Austin Henderson]] worked on a DARPA initiative to produce a single, coherent [[ARPANET]] standard for an email object. The result of their work was [http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc733.txt RFC 733]. In 1982, Dave made some specific changes to adapt RFC 733 for use on the emerging Internet; this resulted in [http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc822.txt RFC 822].
-In 1978 Mr. Crocker worked again with Dave Farber at the University of Delaware and developed the first versions of what would become the Multi-purpose Memo Distribution Facility ([[MMDF]]). This project was for the U.S. Army Materiel Command.<ref>[http://www.livinginternet.com/e/ei.htm livinginternet.com]</ref>
+In 1978, Dave was once again with Dave Farber at the University of Delaware, where he developed the first versions of the Multi-purpose Memo Distribution Facility ([[MMDF]]), for relaying and gatewaying mail. This project was initially for the U.S. Army Materiel Command<ref>[http://www.livinginternet.com/e/ei.htm livinginternet.com]</ref>, and then served as the foundation of [[CSNet]].<ref>[http://bbiw.net/recent.html#PostelCSNet bbiw.net]</ref> Dave has developed two national email services and designed two others.<ref>[http://bbiw.net/dave.html bbiw.net]</ref>
-He has developed two national email services and designed two others.<ref>[http://bbiw.net/dave.html bbiw.net]</ref>
 === Meetings ===
-Mr. Crocker actively participates in Meetings in the Internet Industry. He has Chaired and Presented at Several conferences which include:
+Dave actively participates in meetings in the Internet industry. He has chaired and presented at several conferences, including:
 *N+I Interop
 *Electronic Messaging Association
-*APRICOT '06, '05, '04, '99
+*[[APRICOT]] '06, '05, '04, '99
-*RIPE, Edinburgh <ref>[http://www.bbiw.net/musings.html bbiw.net]</ref>
+*[[RIPE]], Edinburgh<ref>[http://www.bbiw.net/musings.html bbiw.net]</ref>
-*EMail World
+*Email World
 *Unix Expo
 *FTC email authentication conference in 2004.<ref>[http://www.mccullagh.org/photo/10d-20/dave-crocker mccullagh.org]</ref>
-He has also taught several classes on Internet, TCP/IP and Open Systems Networking.
+=== Publications ===
+He is the author of book chapters, magazine articles, presentations, and specifications on open systems networking, standards, electronic mail, and electronic commerce. A complete list of his presentations and publications can be read [http://www.bbiw.net/musings.html here].
-== Publications ==
-Author of book chapters, magazine articles, presentations and specifications on open systems networking, standards, electronic mail and electronic commerce. A complete list of his presentations and publications can be read [http://www.bbiw.net/musings.html here].
 == Awards and Honors ==
-In 2004, he got the [[IEEE Internet Award]].<ref>[http://www.dcrocker.net/resume.html dcrocker.net]</ref>
+In 2004, he received the [[IEEE]] Internet Award.<ref>[http://www.dcrocker.net/resume.html dcrocker.net]</ref>
 == Education ==
-*Ph.D in Computer Science from University of Delaware (1978-1982)
+*Doctoral work in Computer Science from the University of Delaware (1978-1982)
-*M.A in Communication from Annenberg School, USC (1977)
+*M.A. in Communication from Annenberg School, USC (1977)
-*B.A in Psychology from UCLA in (1975)
+*B.A. in Psychology from UCLA (1975)
 == External Links ==
+*[https://thenetworkcollective.com/2018/06/hon-email-part1/ The History of Internet Mail - Part 1]
+*[https://thenetworkcollective.com/2018/06/hon-email-part2/ The History of Internet Mail - Part 2]
 *[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/is99/governance/crocker.html#methodology The Debate Over Internet Governance: A Snapshot in the Year 2000]
 *[http://www.circleid.com/members/1167/ Dave Crocker] on [[CircleID]]
 *[http://isoc.org/wp/ietfjournal/?p=1737 IETF Outcomes: An interview with Dave Crocker]
 *[[Carl Malamud]] interviews [http://town.hall.org/radio/Geek/030994_geek_ITR.html Dave Crocker]
+*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5fO2SrzGkY&feature=related Reviewing the Internet's Future by Prognosticating Its Past - Dave Crocker-Video 1]
+*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haPK_CYwsg8&feature=related Reviewing the Internet's Future by Prognosticating Its Past - Dave Crocker-Video 2]
+*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8kliBl9fkw&feature=related Reviewing the Internet's Future by Prognosticating Its Past - Dave Crocker-Video 3]
+*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udfnJg4WNUk&feature=related Reviewing the Internet's Future by Prognosticating Its Past - Dave Crocker-Video 4]
+*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8e0lJovxQM&feature=related Reviewing the Internet's Future by Prognosticating Its Past - Dave Crocker-Video 5]
+*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slYfiPDauqo&feature=related Reviewing the Internet's Future by Prognosticating Its Past - Dave Crocker-Video 6]
+*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH4Xz_YgZMo&feature=related Reviewing the Internet's Future by Prognosticating Its Past - Dave Crocker-Video 7]
+*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tp92vvkBIE&feature=related Reviewing the Internet's Future by Prognosticating Its Past - Dave Crocker-Video 8]
+*[http://www.cisco.com/web/about/ac123/ac147/archived_issues/ipj_8-4/anti-spam_efforts.html Tutorial of Email Anti-abuse]
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